New Study: Meter Rise in Oceans Would Create Coastal Exodus of 200 Million People

New Study: Meter Rise in Oceans Would Create Coastal Exodus of 200 Million People

Assessment much more severe than those made just six years ago

by

Jon Queally, staff writer

A new assessment of expected sea level rise due this century reveals that leading scientists believe the cause for alarm is much greater than previously thought and concludes that a nearly full meter rise globally could send tens of millions of coastal inhabitants forced from their homes by 2100.

Researchers warn that if the new predictions come to pass, as many as 200 million people would have to leave low-lying areas and that these would include large populated cities in developed nations, not just vulnerable, less-developed nations like Bangladesh and remote island countries.

Significantly worse than forecasts made just six years ago by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the new conclusions were found by comparing data collected and estimates made by over two dozens experts on sea level increases. The findings—which if proved accurate would be 'catastrophic'—were published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

As The Daily Mailreports on the study's findings, the new estimates "are in line with other studies which have shown sea level rises are likely to be much worse than had been thought just a few years ago and that the rate of increase has speeded up in the last decade."

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